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As of October 2014, Gallup polling found that 43% of Americans identified as Democrats and 39% as Republicans, when party leaners were included; those figures changed to 41% Democratic and 42% Republican after the November 2014 elections.
The majority -- 62% -- of Republicans describe themselves as conservative, with most of the rest describing themselves as moderate. A relatively small group of Republicans, 15%, say that they are very conservative. It is this hard-core group of very right-leaning Republicans that I will focus on in this analysis.